A shower head includes a main body formed with a chamber communicating with a water inlet at the upper end. The main body has its lower end formed with central water outlets and peripheral water outlets and has its interior installed with a water-separating unit with a pivot having a sealing member fixed thereon. When the pivot together with the sealing member is moved up and down vertically in the chamber, the sealing member can carry out sealing to control the water flowing in the chamber through the central water outlets or the peripheral water outlets. The main body has one circumferential side installed with a press unit formed with two pushing slopes actuated to move horizontally and push the pivot of the water-separating unit to shift up and down vertically for controlling the shower head to send out water through the center or the periphery.
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1. A shower head comprising:
a main body having one end formed with a water inlet and the other end formed with at least one central water outlet and a plurality of peripheral water outlets, said main body having its interior formed with a chamber communicating with said water inlet and said central water outlets as well as said peripheral water outlets, said chamber formed with a first wall and a second wall:
a water-separating unit installed in the interior of said main body and provided with a pivot able to be moved up and down vertically, said pivot fitted thereon with a sealing member, said sealing member actuated by an elastic member to normally push against and seal said first wall inside said chamber of said main body so that said water inlet can only communicate with said central water outlets of said main body, said pivot able to be actuated to shift vertically toward said elastic member to let said sealing member push against and seal said second wall inside said chamber of said main body so that said water inlet can only communicate with said peripheral water outlets: and
a press unit positioned in the interior of said main body and composed of a first actuating member and a second actuating member, said first and said second actuating member able to be respectively and elastically pressed to move inward horizontally, said first and said second actuating member respectively formed with a pushing slope in opposite directions, said sealing member on said pivot actuated to push against and seal up said first wall when said pushing slope of said first actuating member is moved inward horizontally to push said pivot to move upward vertically, said sealing member actuated to push against and seal up said second wall when said pushing slope of said second actuating member is moved inward horizontally to push said pivot to move downward vertically.
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a shower head, particularly to one convenient in use and operation and having excellent sealing effect.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Most conventional spray heads can be optionally controlled to send out water through the center or plural holes in the periphery as disclosed in a U.S. Pat. No. 6,370,713. The shower head in this US patent includes a main body having its underside provided with a disc bored with a central water outlet and a plurality of peripheral water outlets. The main body is formed with a water passageway in the interior and a transverse chamber opposite to the water passageway. The transverse chamber has its interior horizontally provided with a rod with a sealing member, and a compression spring for actuating the rod to recover its original position. The rod is transversely inserted out of the main body and connected with a actuation lever for controlling the rod to let the sealing member seal up the sealing surface inside the transverse chamber so as to control water to flow out through the central water outlet or through the peripheral water outlets.
However, although the conventional shower head can be optionally controlled to send out water through the center or the periphery, yet the rod and the compression spring are horizontally installed in the interior of the transverse chamber. Therefore, the direction of gravitational force imposed upon the rod, the sealing member and the compression spring is not the in line with their working and shifting direction. As a result, the rod, the sealing member and the compression spring are likely to produce bias displacement; especially, the sealing member of the rod is liable to fall downward, unable to be evenly sealed on the sealing surface of the transverse chamber, not only worsening sealing but also damaging and shortening the service life of the sealing member as well.
The objective of the invention is to offer a shower head including a main body formed in the interior with a chamber communicating with a water inlet at the upper end. The main body has its lower end formed with central water outlets and peripheral water outlets. A water-separating unit provided with a pivot is installed in the interior of the main body. When the sealing member on the pivot is actuated to move up and down vertically in the chamber of the main body, the sealing member will carry out sealing to control and guide water coming from the water outlet to flow out through the central water outlets or the peripheral water outlets. The main body further has one circumferential side installed with a press unit formed with two pushing slopes able to be actuated to shift horizontally and push the pivot of the water-separating unit to move up and down vertically for controlling the shower head to send out water through the center or the periphery.
The shower head of this invention has the following advantages.
1. The shower head can be optionally controlled to send out water through the center or the periphery.
2. After being pressed, the press unit can be released immediately to let water sent out automatically, needless to be pressed continuously.
3. The water-separating unit of the shower head is installed and shifted vertically, able to enhance sealing effect and prolong the service life of the sealing member.
This invention will be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A first preferred embodiment of a shower head in the present invention, as shown in
The main body 10 consists of an inner base 11, an outer casing 12, a water inflow unit 13 and a water outflow unit 14.
The inner base 11, as shown in
The outer casing 12 to be fitted around the inner base 11 from above is bored with an opening 121 to be corresponding to the outer wall of the accommodating space 114 of the inner base 11.
The water inflow unit 13 consists of a spring holder 131, a pipe coupler 132 and a one-way valve 133. The spring holder 131 to be received in the recessed opening 111 in the upper end of the inner base 11 has its upper end bored with a recessed groove 131a having a shaft hole 131b in the center and has its lower end bored with a plurality of groove slots 131c communicating with the central passageway 112 of the inner base 11. Further, the recessed groove 131a of the spring holder 131 has its upper opening formed with a second wall 131d.
The pipe coupler 132, as shown in
The one-way valve 133 to be received in the accommodating groove 132a at the upper end of the pipe coupler 132 has a tubular body 133a, a base portion 133b positioned under the tubular body 133a, a valve rod 133c positioned between the tubular body 133a and the base portion 133b, and a spring 133d installed between the valve rod 133c and the base 133b. The spring 133d can actuate the valve rod 133c to push against and seal the inner wall of the upper opening of the tubular body (133a), and the valve rod 133c can be forced by preset water pressure to move downward and compress the spring 133d to form a water inlet 135. Moreover, the base portion 133b has its circumference bored with a plurality of flow holes 133e through which water can flow into the accommodating groove 132a of the pipe coupler 132. The structure of the one-way valve, being the same as that of a conventional one, is not to be described therein.
The water outflow unit 14 is composed of a disc body 141 and a foaming member 142. The disc 141 is formed with a bottom wall 141a having its upper inner and outer side respectively protruding upward to form an inner annular wall 141b and an outer annular wall 141c. The inner annular wall 141b of the disc 141 is fitted and sealed with the bottom circumference of the central passageway 112 of the inner base 11, and the outer annular wall 141c of the disc 141 is fitted and sealed between the lower ends of the inner base 11 and the outer casing 12 to separate the central passageways 112 from the peripheral flow passageways 113 at the lower side of the inner base 11. Further, the disc 141 has the bottom wall 141a within the inner annular wall 141b bored with a through opening 141d and the bottom wall 141a between the inner annular wall (141b) and the outer annular wall 141c annularly bored with lots of small peripheral water outlets 141e. The foaming member 142 is threadably mounted on the through opening (141d) of the disc 141 and bored with lots of small central water outlets 142a through which water flows out in foaming condition. The structure of the foaming member 142, being the same as that of a conventional one, is not to be described here.
The water-separating unit 20, as shown in
The pivot 21 is vertically inserted in both the insert hole 115 of the inner base 11 and the shaft hole 131b of the spring holder 131 of the water inflow unit 13, having the opposite ends respectively positioned in the upper chamber 134 and in the accommodating space 114 of the inner base 114.
The sealing member 22 is firmly fitted on the upper end of the pivot 21, able to be moved up and down together with the pivot 21 in the chamber 134. When moved upward, the sealing member 22 will resist and seal the annular first wall 132d at the bottom of the pipe coupler 132 to let the water inlet 135 only able to communicate with the central water outlets 142a of the foaming member 142. When moved downward, the sealing member 22 will resist and seal the second wall 131d at the upper end of the spring holder 131 to let the water inlet 135 only able to communicate with the peripheral water outlets 141e of the disc 141.
The elastic member 23, being a spring in this preferred embodiment, is fitted around the upper portion of the pivot 21, having its opposite ends respectively pushing against the sealing member 22 and a relative portion of the upper recessed groove 131a of the spring holder 131. The pivot 21 together with the sealing member 22 can be moved upward by the elastic force of the elastic member 23 to normally keep the sealing member 22 and the first wall 132d of the pipe coupler 132 in a mutually sealed condition, and the sealing member 22 can be actuated by preset water pressure to move downward and compress the elastic member 23.
The coupler plate 24 has its upper end firmly engaged with the lower end of the pivot 21 and its intermediate portion cut with a vertical slot 241 having the upper and the lower side respectively formed with a pushing wall 242, 243.
The press unit 30, as shown in
The base plate 31 is secured at the opening 117 of the intermediate accommodating space 114 of the inner base 11 and bored with an upper and a lower insert hole 311 aligned to each other.
The press cover 32 made of flexible material is fixed with and exposed out of the opening 121 in the circumferential side of the outer casing 12 and formed with a first press portion 321 and a second press portion 322 respectively able to be pressed and produce flexible deformation.
The first and the second actuating member 33a, 33b respectively consist of a press block 331 and an elongate actuating block 332. The two press blocks 331 are respectively positioned high and low between the base plate 31 and the press cover 32, able to be respectively actuated to move inward after the first and the second press portion 321, 322 of the press cover 32 are respectively pressed and deformed inward. The two press blocks 331 are respectively formed with a stud 331a at the central portion of one side facing the base plate 31, and each stud 331a is bored with an insert slot 331b in the center. The two elongate actuating blocks 332 respectively have one end formed with an insert portion 332a to be inserted through the insert hole 311 of the base plate 31 and then inserted in the central insert slot 331b of the press block 331. The two elongate controlling blocks 332 respectively have the other end formed with a sliding portion 332b to be inward inserted through the vertical slot 241 of the coupling plate 24 and then positioned in the rail groove 116 of the inner base 11 to be guided to slide therein. Further, the two elongate actuating blocks 332 have their intermediate portions at the inner side of the base plate 31 respectively formed with a pushing slope 332c positioned in opposite direction. Thus, when the actuating block 332 of the first actuating member 33a is shifted inward horizontally together with the press block 331, the pushing slope 332c will push upward against the upper wall 242 of the vertical slot 241 of the coupling plate 24 and actuate the pivot 21 to move upward vertically. In the same way, when the actuating block 332 of the second actuating member 33b is shifted inward horizontally together with the press block 331, the pushing slope 332c will push downward against the lower wall 243 of the vertical slot 241 of the coupling plate 24 and actuate the pivot 21 to move downward vertically. In addition, each pushing slope 332c of the actuating block 332 has its outer side formed with a stepped stopping edge 332d for resisting against the inner wall of the base plate 31 and being positioned thereon.
The two elastic members 34, being springs in this preferred embodiment, are respectively fitted on the studs 331a of the two press blocks 331 of the first and the second actuating member 33a, 33b, and have their inner ends respectively pushing against the outer wall of the base plate 31. Thus, the two press blocks 331 can be pushed by the elastic members 34 to move outward horizontally until the stopping edges 332d of the actuating blocks 332 are stopped at the inner wall of the base plate 31 to let the pushing slopes 332c of the controlling blocks 332 normally disengaged from the upper and the lower wall 242, 243 of coupling plate 24 of the water-separating unit 20.
In a normal state of the press unit 30 not being pressed, the spray head of this invention will keep sending out water from the center, but the press unit 30 can be optionally pressed for sending out water from the center or from the periphery.
Referring to
To send out water from the periphery, as shown in
To recover sending out water through the center, as shown in
A second preferred embodiment of a spray head in the present invention, as shown in
As can be understood from the above description, this invention has the following advantages.
1. In a normal state, the spray head of this invention can be normally kept in a condition of sending out water through the center, and the press unit 30 can be optionally pressed for sending out water through the center or the periphery.
2. When the press unit 30 is pressed, the inflow water pressure or the restoring force of the elastic member 23 is able to keep the sealing member 22 in a sealed condition; therefore, after being pressed, the press unit 30 can be released immediately to let the shower head automatically keep sending out water through the periphery or the center, convenient in use and conforming to the humanized design.
3. The water-separating unit 20 is installed and operated vertically; therefore, the direction of gravitational force imposed upon the water-separating unit 20 is in line with the working and shifting direction of the water-separating unit 20, able to enhance sealing effect and prolong the service life of the sealing member 22.
While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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